Typography

I am looking for a font. For what? You may ask. A stylish social network app.

I have been looking at various social networks (Facebook, Twitter, et cetera) and they all seem to have very strong characteristics when it comes to their logo, as typography should be.

I want a font that is sans-serif, strong, with interesting angles. Somewhat like Facebook’s logo, which is closely related to Klavika Bold, but I hate pretty much all of the lowercase letters except for “n,” which has an interesting up-turn.

Obviously, the font that I use will just be a jumping-off point for me to leap into the abyss of typography. I already know how I will style the first letter, but I want a good font to start with and I am certain that there are some typography geeks on here.

This is an early demo, but here. This is using Klavika Bold as a base. Sigh. Comments and critiques are needed. That is basically what I was picturing. Not so sure I like it though. Maybe I need a different font.

Looking at it now, I feel like it looks a bit bloated. But I still like the opening lowercase “L.” I do, however, believe the leaf shape should be more apparent and flowing to the right a little bit. I want this to be whimsical (which means I might need to use a serif font). I know Georgia has a sexy italic lowercase “F.” Start suggesting fonts and I will see what I can do. And while you do that, I shall look at the website you mentioned.

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